Gender and housing in Soviet Russia Private life in a public space.

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719081453; 9780719081453; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 New byt, new woman, new forms of housing; 2 The New Economic Policy; 3 Housing cooperatives; 4 Communes, hostels and barracks; 5 The 'second socialist offensive'; 6 The retreat from new byt; 7 Communal living by default; 8 The Great Patriotic War and its aftermath; 9 The Khrushchev era:'To every family its own apartment'; 10 The Brezhnev years; 11 The Gorbachev era:the end of a socialist housing policy; 12 Personal tales; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of?home? for Soviet citizens. She examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood?s material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the.

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